Christianity never kept society together unless you are totally oblivious to the number of wars fought on European soil during this so called 1000 years of stability.

There were periods of stabilty because rivals balanced each other out in terms of power that lasted a generation or two here and there but you will be hard pressed to find a Western Historian who says there is a 1000 year period of stability.

I'm not taking a stance here, I'm atheist myself, that being said:

> Christianity never kept society together unless you are totally oblivious to the number of wars fought on European soil during this so called 1000 years of stability.

Some people argue that it does to some extent. It gave people something greater than them, a community, traditions (church on sunday, &c.), a common set of rules to follow and a cohesive framework to "navigate" through life. It told you what was wrong, what was right, gave you a sense of spirituality and the sacred. Even the classical family values are christian concepts (Christianity didn't invent the family but theorised our modern take on it).

Now that we're past that a lot of people navigate life as atomized individuals without any moral compass, nothing is right nor wrong anymore, do whatever you want, be whatever you want, anything as long as you work and consume

People went to war for their religion, died peacefully knowing they'd go to some form of paradise, now we send kids to foreign deserts to fight for petrol, they're dying so that you can have the next iphone or a fill up your car, there is no transcendental greater good they could look for, the new religion is globalization and consumerism

The judeo christian civilisation lasted ~2000 years and clearly is on the decline, it's neither good nor bad in itself but you can't deny that it is a pillar of our current western world

> you will be hard pressed to find a Western Historian who says there is a 1000 year period of stability.

The fact that something existed for so long and that a lot of our modern philosophical and societal takes are direct descendant of it are good enough to prove stability, they've never been any era of "stability" if you define stability as "no war".